17th Arrondissement - Etoile Batignoles: Paris

The place where everybody and nobody wants to live.  There is nothing really to do in this neighborhood except basque in the glory of the wealth you must have achieved to be able to live here.  A sort of parallel to London's Hyde Park, this arrondissement and its neighbor the 16th are calm, beautiful albeit slightly boring places to live. It is the heartbreaking home to hundreds of young and eager Swedish or other sorts of au pairs, who come excitedly to Paris year after year, hoping to experience the city, and who instead find themselves shut up in in one of these beautiful apartments six days a week never finding the time or the freedom for the hundreds of French lovers looking around the city for her. She might get outside from time to time to take a stroll with the kids through Parc Monceau, perhaps the most noble and sophisticated park in Paris and the only really great thing apart from the Arc de Triomphe to see in this neighborhood.

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